Write Now by Mark I. Pinsky
Why Barack Obama should resurrect the Federal Writers Project and bail out laid-off journalists.
Come on. Tell me you didn’t see this one coming.
America’s newspaper industry has been imploding in the last few years, a development that predates the Wall Street collapse but has been hugely accelerated by the economic meltdown, forcing thousands of journalists onto the street. Hundreds more have now joined them from retrenching magazines and faltering websites, bringing the year-to-date total to 14,683 according to the tracking website Paper Cuts. Hundreds more have now joined them from retrenching magazines and faltering websites.
Apparently five layers of copy-checking editors have all been laid off as well.
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Well, as an unemployed writer and editor, who can’t get an interview since nobody’s hiring, I have to admit I think this would be nice. Not necessarily good, but nice.
Where abouts are you, Growler? Any experience in tech writing?
NYS DOT (Albany, NY) is “not hiring” and “not bringing in more consultants” but in practice is doing so. They need at least one tech writer. Don’t know if they’ve got a butt to fill the seat(s) yet.
Geez,
How about bailing out a few of us typewriter repairmen while you are at it.
On another tack, good writers are always in demand in almost every field. The problem, of course, is that one would need some knowledge of the subject.
I was hired in one job, just so I could edit the bosses ideas into presentable format.
I wonder how free-lance business writers might do, if they were careful about their pricing.